Mike Crespin

I'd like to see a scatterplot of the number of reviews by the number of publications or submissions.

I'm a little surprised this one started up after giving it the summer off. I finally decided to get a new one for this year. This was my first computer when I got to OU. I've had many more but none ran like this one.

This was from five years ago but always worth sharing. I think there were about 1000 users on the list.

16-Year-Old Cooper Lutkenhaus Shocks the Nation and Qualifies for Worlds The rising high school junior placed second in the 800-meter final with an unbelievable PR of three seconds.

1:42.2 800m for a high schooler going into his junior year. Insane. www.runnersworld.com/news/a655851...

My dryer will occasionally stop drying but the drum keeps spinning. The YouTube fix is to smack it like a 1980 tv when the vertical hold is busted.

I generally like wirecutter but anytime they make a recommendation in a category I know well I disagree with their picks.

Maybe Dominos but I didn’t get a close look.

I just saw a guy delivering a pizza in a unicycle so I guess that means classes are starting soon.

They announce the game and QQQ is down 2.4%! Nice work guys.

A big congratulations to former Carl Albert Center graduate Fellow Matthew Geras for earning tenure and promotion at the University of Illinois Springfield! Great job, Matt!

Not me mailing some contraband plastic bags to my sister in NY.

I've said this before but my brother had a literal PhD in healthcare economics and I asked him to pick between two plans for when my daughter was born. He said it was impossible to pick the better plan and was that way on purpose.

The Carl Albert Center is saddened to hear of the passing of George Nigh. Gov. Nigh was a giant of Oklahoma politics and can be found across many of our archival collections. Here he is with Speaker Albert, Fred and LaDonna Harris and many others.

When grants get big you can write in admin support.

I just got back from Bentonville, AR and this is exactly the case. The starter (3/2 1500 sq ft) home and lot is $650k and then a multi-million dollar larger home replaces it. Sometimes taking up two lots. Nice looking houses though.

That's crazy that you have committees for promotion/tenure and third year review.

PIs do a lot of work on the funding and admin sides.

The varying scales on the graphs sure exaggerate the declines.

I successfully retrieved an email from my work phone! Thankfully the message was to text someone so I didn't have to actually call them back.

There’s another passage where he catches his fish monger shorting his restaurant and parlays that into never paying the guy again. I don’t know what the political analogy is but I’m sure it’s happening.

Another case study just puts money for their child in an investment account in their name. If you do this via a UTMA you pay taxes at the child’s rate, not yours.

This is supposed to be a personal finance article about 529s and one of the case studies is a person who drops out of college and withdraws the money (pays taxes and penalties) and goes on vacation with the remainder. She then buys life insurance policies for her kids as a savings vehicle.

Ahhhhh! Ahhhhhh! www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

Our visiting ornate box turtle, Turtlepac, made her dinner time rounds. We were out of blueberries so she got some cherries.

I didn’t know that. It works fine with apple wallet. I’ve seen lots of folks turned away for boarding early.

I’m a huge fan of the free gate check when I’m not in a hurry .

Anyone in zones 7 or 8 don’t even think about bringing your bag on board.

I bought a ticket before they announced the policy and should still get free bags. It will be fun seeing if that works out.

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